Vilipend

Quick meaning: Vilipend is a verb meaning (transitive, dated, formal) To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.

Meaning

(transitive, dated, formal) To treat (something) as inconsequential or worthless; to despise, to look down on.

More Meanings

1. (transitive, dated, formal) To express a disparaging opinion of; to slander or vilify.

Example Sentences

But, for all their feint of nonchalance, these young persons have no other task in life but to explain and extol their own conduct and to vilipend their critics and opponents.

But we desire, most unhesitatingly to condemn and vilipend a system of continual abuse, intended to fall upon the provincial Government, but in reality reaching and injuring the public at large.

Word Forms

• vilipends
• vilipending
• vilipended
• vilipendeth

Synonyms for vilipend

Depending on context, synonyms include belittle, contemn, misprize, slight, bagatellize, banalize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include revile, disvalue, denigrate, indignify, disparage, undervalue.

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